From brilliant green to rich gold hues, fabulous foliage and flowers can wake up any dark or colorless, shade area. See below a list of great plants that wake up a blah area of your shade garden. Plant list is suitable for gardens in plant hardiness zones 5-8. Exciting colorful and/or tropical-like foliage or showy flowers. Hostas, […]
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Jazz Up Shady Garden Areas
Posted by Hugh on March 14th, 2018
Posted in acidic soil, Aralia 'Sun King', Autumn fern (Dryopteris), Bees and other pollinators, Bleeding Hearts (Dicentra), Boxwood (Buxus), Brunnera 'Jack Frost', Carex (Sedges), Container garden, Disease resistant, Doghobble (Leucothoe), Drought tolerant, Fertilizing plants, Hakone grass, Heat Tolerance, Heuchera (coralbells), Heucherella (foamy bells), Hosta, Landscape ideas, Ligularias, Liriope, Mayapple (Podophyllum), mulching, Native Plant, Perennials, Planting tips, Pulmonaria, Purchasing Plants, Rodgersia, Sacred Lily (Rohdea), Sedges (Carex), Shade Gardening, Soil drainage, Solomon's seal, Southern Appalachian Region, Spurge (Euphorbia), St. John's Wort (Hypericum), Summer heat tolerant, Sweet flag (Acorus), Tiarella (foam flower), Variegated Solomon Seal, watering tips 
Comments Off on Jazz Up Shady Garden AreasHypearls® St. John’s Wort Worth The Hype
Posted by Hugh on March 15th, 2014
St. John’s Wort’s (Hypericum spp.) are terrific landscape shrubs and ground covers with bright yellow flowers in late spring and colorful berry fruits starting in late summer (USDA hardiness zones 5-9). Bees and birds are attracted to flowers and fruits respectively. Hypearls® are a new series of hypericums. Cultivars are available in four compact growing […]
Posted in acidic soil, Attracting birds, Bee Favorite, compact shrub, Container growing, container shrub, Disease resistant, Drought tolerant, Heat Tolerance, Ornamental fruit, Southern Appalachian Region, St. John's Wort (Hypericum), Summer flowering, Trees & Shrubs, watering tips Comments Off on Hypearls® St. John’s Wort Worth The HypeLandscape Shrubs Rarely Damaged By Deer
Posted by Hugh on December 1st, 2013
Deer will eat or nibble on any landscape plant, particularly when they’re starving. Abnormally high deer populations, starved by a shortage of their favorite foods (mast), will feed or browse on almost any plant. This is a survival reaction. To truly protect plants when deer numbers are unusually high, a tall fence or reinforced netting […]
Posted in Abelia, Arborvitae (Thuja spp.), Aucuba, Bottlebrush buckeye, Boxwood (Buxus), Buddleia (Butterfly bush), Cherry Laurel (Prunus), common boxwood, Contorted filbert (Corylus), Cotoneaster, Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia), Cryptomeria (Japanese cedar), Deer resistant, Disease resistant, Doghobble (Leucothoe), Dogwood (Cornus), Enkianthus, Firethorn (Pyracantha), Flowering quince (Chaenomeles), Foster Holly (Ilex), Fringetree (Chionanthus), Heat Tolerance, Invasive plant, Juniper, Magnolia stellata, Mugo pine (Pinus mugo), Osmanthus 'Goshiki', Pieris japonica, Southern Appalachian Region, Spirea (Spiraea), St. John's Wort (Hypericum), Sumac (Rhus), Summer heat tolerant, Trees & Shrubs, Wildlife attractant Comments Off on Landscape Shrubs Rarely Damaged By Deer‘Sunburst’ Golden St. John’s Wort
Posted by Hugh on July 16th, 2012
Our native golden St. John’s wort (Hypericum frondosum) deserves more planting space in U. S. gardens (USDA hardiness zones 5-8). ‘Sunburst’ is the leading cultivar and exhibits superior traits over the species. Golden St. John’s wort forms a small, dense growing deciduous shrub, noted for its showy golden yellow flowers and attractive blue-green foliage. Sunburst grows more compact […]
Posted in acidic soil, alkaline soil, Butterflies, compact shrub, Disease resistant, Drought tolerant, Evergreens, Flowering, Heat Tolerance, Native Plant, Ornamental fruit, Pruning, Soil drainage, Southern Appalachian Region, Spring flowering, St. John's Wort (Hypericum), Summer flowering, Summer heat tolerant, Winter bark Comments Off on ‘Sunburst’ Golden St. John’s Wort‘Brigadoon’ Hypericum Wakes Up a Garden Bed
Posted by Hugh on July 13th, 2012
The bright chartreuse (almost golden) foliage Brigadoon St. John’s wort (Hypericum calycinum ‘Brigadoon’) can brighten up almost any dull garden spot. This Euro-Asian ground cover thrives in any well-drained soil under full to partial sunlight (USDA zones 4-7). Full sun may burn the summer foliage in zone 7. ‘Brigadoon’ grows 12 to 16 inches tall and spreads […]
Posted in Butterflies, Disease resistant, Drought tolerant, Ground cover, Heat Tolerance, Planting tips, Pruning, Root suckering, Southern Appalachian Region, Spring flowering, St. John's Wort (Hypericum), Summer flowering Comments Off on ‘Brigadoon’ Hypericum Wakes Up a Garden Bed
